The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in an update on its website Friday warned that “all French visitors, including dual nationals, are exposed to a high risk of arrest, arbitrary detention…
France has urged all French nationals to leave Iran “as soon as possible,” warning that they risk “arrest, arbitrary detentions and unfair trial.”
Earlier on Friday, the Foreign Ministry called on Iran to release two French citizens, who had been shown in video aired by Iranian state media saying they were operatives for the French intelligence service. Speaking in French, Kohler says in the video, “we were in Iran to prepare the conditions for the revolution in Iran and the overthrow of the Iranian Islamic regime.”
The Foreign Ministry has said that the “alleged confessions” have no basis whatsoever and that it believes that the detainees were speaking under duress.
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